What does "chatoyant" mean?
Chatoyant: Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
Additional senses
- 2.A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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